Worker trapped by boulder after rock slide at Hillsborough quarry

HILLSBOROUGH — A worker was injured Tuesday when trapped in his excavating machine by a large boulder at a Belle Mead stone quarry.

A worked was trapped Tuesday under a boulder at the Gibraltar Rock stone quarry in Belle Mead.Google Maps

At about 2:19 p.m. Tuesday, Hillsborough Police were called to the Gibraltar Rock — Belle Mead Stone Quarry on County Road 601 in the Belle Mead section of Hillsborough for a report of a worker trapped by a boulder in an excavator, Lt. Mark Besser of Hillsborough Police said in a statement.

Kim Plattenberg, 40, of Columbia was found trapped in an excavating machine by a large boulder that had fallen on the vehicle, Besser said.

Plattenberg, who is employed by Silver Valley Drilling and Blasting of Saylorsburg, Pa., was working at the Gibraltar stone quarry when the rock slide occurred, Besser said.